My Barbarian / edited by Adrienne Edwards, Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade ; with contributions by Joshua Chambers-Letson and Lia Gangitano.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 29, 2021-February 27, 2022, and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, September 2022-January 2023. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Entertainment system : My Barbarian's twenty years at the limits of political critique / Adrienne Edwards -- Visual chronology -- Showcore / Alexandro Segade, with annotations by Malik Gaines and Jade Gordon -- Site-specific spectacle / Malik Gaines, with annotations by Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade -- Post-political theater / Jade Gordon, with annotations by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade -- Hysteria threeway : My Barbaraian and the labor of collective being / Joshua Chambers-Letson -- "We can worship one another," or, "the anticipatory illumination of queer virtuosity" / Lia Gangitano -- Selected performance and exhibition history.
Summary:
"The first monographic publication on the art collective My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade) offers new insights into the work of this group of performers. My Barbarian has used performance to theatricalize social issues, adapting narratives from modern plays, historical texts, and mass media; this volume accompanies a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrating the group's twentieth anniversary. An overview essay offers an introduction to the formal qualities of the group's work, while other contributions read their output through a lens of queer and other critical theory, and contextualize it within the twenty-first-century experimental performance scene. A visual chronology features texts on My Barbarian's past works written by the artists. Performances and video works are re-created using stills alongside photos, drawings, scripts, and personal materials drawn from the artists' archives"--Provided by publisher.
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